Lately I’ve been reading the Snopes Trilogy, starting with The Hamlet by William Faulkner. Faulkner, while a great writer and Nobel Prize winner, suffers from the claustrophobic love of reverent English teachers who force their students to read Faulkner’s BIG, IMPORTANT books, which are mostly unreadable. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, try [...]
Entries Tagged as 'John McMillan'
Mississippi’s Original Usable Market
March 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Book Reviews, Other Markets
Tags:John McMillan·Mississippi·Uncle Varner's store·William Faulkner
Book Review: Reinventing the Bazaar, A Natural History of Markets
September 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Book Reviews
This review first appeared in the Non-Joiners Book Club, a Yahoo Group. Those of us who are not economists experience markets as they are — without thinking much about how they were designed or how they work. eBay is an excellent example of a market that we all know, probably even use, without a deep [...]
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